Mrs. Heaths General Store

Mom - This is for you!

One of our weekend projects was to gain better control of our "food storage"  So Ben bought some new shelving at Sam's Club, assembled them and then helped me load them up with all the food and hygiene items I had boxed up around our spare room.  (Mom & Dad Heath can now rest assure that the next time they come stay at our house, they wont have to fear that macaroni and cheese or cereal will fall on their heads in the middle of the night!)

Picture #1 is all food stuffs.  With boxes of canned wheat on the bottom.  

Picture #2 is mainly hygiene items with boxes of wheat, sugar, rice and oats at the bottom

Picture #3 is more canned food - wheat, rice, sugar, oats etc.  

Not pictured are the 20+ gallons of water stored in our shed for emergency use (flushing the toilet), bottled water, and more boxes of canned food that is stored in our game room.  

Story - when our street lost power for 26 hours during the storm, our next door neighbor came over to ask if we needed anything and to make sure we were ok.  (what a great neighbor huh?!) We told him we had plenty for us and others, and that if he knew of anyone who needed anything we were happy to help in any way possible.  And as you can see we weren't kidding.  And remember this is all just excess storage, as we still have our pantry and cupboards full of food too.

Now what we don't have enough of and need to start stocking up on: candles, oil lamps and a generator.  But these are things that we are slowly getting and stocking up on.  One thing at a time.  :)